The Tragedy of Ehud Olmert
Hillel Schenker : Israel
The fall of Ehud Olmert is a tragedy for Israel and the world--squandering a genuine opportunity for a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab relations.
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Truth and Consequences Under the Israeli Occupation
Mohammed Omer
A Palestinian journalist's life and work shed light on the violence in Israel's "dual" society.
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A West Bank Town's Fight to Survive
Neve Gordon
The residents of the town of Ni'lin continue to fight Israel's efforts to take away their land. Is anyone listening?
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A Conversation With Richard Falk
Linda Mamoun : United Nations
One of the world's most prominent critics of US interventionism talks about his new post as UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories.
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Palestine: Liberation Deferred
Rashid Khalidi
A just resolution of the Palestine question depends on the Palestinians themselves.
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A Somber Anniversary
Avi Shlaim
Sixty years after the founding of the State of Israel, the long conflict with the Palestinians, and with the Arab world at large, casts a pall over Israeli life.
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Motzira-Making on the Right
Eric Alterman : Higher Education
The politics of tenure at Barnard and beyond.
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Tough Love for Israel
Henry Siegman
Another Middle East peace conference? Statesmen instead should have the moral and political courage to end the massive hoax the peace process has become.
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Lives on the Ground
Adina Hoffman : Autobiography & Memoir
New memoirs from Israel and Palestine offer the chance not to escape the political conflict but to grasp the way it impacts daily life.
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Justified Violence: Breaking the Gaza Wall
Allan Nairn : Occupation & Occupied Territories
The breaking of the Gaza-Egypt wall is clearly a good thing, and a rare example of the moral--and also wise--use of violence in politics.
2007
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Post-Annapolis Pitfalls
Henry Siegman : US Foreign Policy
Washington must abandon the fantasy that an Israeli-Palestinian agreement can be reached in the face of deep divisions between Fatah and Hamas, which the United States and Israel have fostered.
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Israel's Palestinians Speak Out
Israel's indigenous Palestinian population rejects the efforts of Israel and the United States to seal our fate as a permanent underclass in our own homeland.
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Spectacle at Annapolis
A lame-duck President's halfhearted diplomacy yields much hypocrisy and few results. But at least the leaders will keep talking.
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The Optimist
To those who follow the Israeli-Palestinian conflict closely, the prospects for a two-state solution have never seemed dimmer. So why does veteran peacenik Uri Avnery remain so hopeful?
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Carter Speaks His Mind
A conversation with the former President on Jonathan Demme's new film, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains, and the difficulty of talking about Israel and Palestine.
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Justice Delayed
The government's case against Khader Hamide and Michel Shehadeh is closed. But did the US government learn anything about its wayward two-decade prosecution of Palestinian activists?
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Facing Hamas and Hezbollah
Helena Cobban : US Foreign Policy
US diplomacy in the Middle East has been held hostage by a refusal to engage with these two popular movements.
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Lobbying Degree Zero
Moral mudslinging has stifled debate over the Israel lobby.
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Vertical Disintegration
A new take on Israel/Palestine: Could Israel's architecture be the solution to the insoluble disputes?
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Eyeless in Gaza
The disaster in Gaza has many fathers, but its most direct cause was the Bush Administration's cynical manipulation of democracy promotion.
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Hamas Holds the High Cards
It's too late for the corrupt remnants of the PLO to make any credible claim of leadership, even if the US, Israel and EU throw aid dollars their way.
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Israel's Choice
It's time for a democratically governed Israel to grant liberal civil rights to its Arab minority.
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The State of Zionism
Tracing the course of Zionism and the splintered state it has created.
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For a Secular Democratic State
Zionism has run its course, and in doing so has killed any possibility of a two-state solution.
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The Case for Shared Sovereignty
Let's give up the illusion of a two-state solution--Israel's already a binational state.
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Endless Occupation?
On the fortieth anniversary of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, the issue remains unchanged: the rights of two peoples to live in peace and dignity on fully equal terms.
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'Can We Talk?' (cont'd.)
If we are ever to solve the Israel/Palestinian conflict, learning each other's historical narratives is surely the place to begin.
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Uneasy Calm in Palestine
Israel's unilateralist government isn't interested in a negotiating partner, but without a united Palestinian leadership, chances for local and regional peace are slim.
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In Gaza, Circles of Hell
Dante's circles of hell provide an apt metaphor for the Palestinian experience in Gaza. And it can only get worse.
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Hurricane Carter
Jimmy Carter has been vilified for saying things about the occupation in his new book that appear regularly in Israeli newspapers.
2006
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The Other Lieberman
Many Israelis and their US supporters are sleeping through the rise of the virulently anti-Arab Avigdor Lieberman, seen as a threat to democracy itself.
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In Palestine, a Dream Deferred
Bashir Abu-Manneh : Non-Fiction
Two new books explore fundamental Palestinian and Israeli concerns: The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi considers the Palestinians' failure to achieve sovereignty, and One Country by Ali Abunimah puts forth a moral case for binationalism.
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My Friend, the Enemy
Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree is a novelistic account of two intertwined lives, one Palestinian and one Jewish, and a house with two histories.
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A Letter from 18 Writers
Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Toni Morrison and other luminaries call to resist Israel's undeclared political aim: the liquidation of the Palestinian state.
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Lawless in Gaza
The latest bloodshed in Gaza and Lebanon demonstrates that there will be no end of violence until Israel agrees to negotiate with the democratically elected Palestinian leadership.
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Israel on the Offensive
Israel's attacks on Gaza--and now Lebanon-- to intimidate a civilian population for political ends is the very definition of state terrorism.
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Palestine: It's All Over
Israel's strategy in 1948 continues today: Make life so awful for Palestinians that most will depart, leaving a few bankrupt ghettos as memorials to the hopes for a Palestinian state.
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Handling Hamas
Rather than undermine Hamas, the Bush Administration should accept the results of the Palestinian election and pursue a policy of cautious engagement.
2005
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The Young and the Damned
Paradise Now explores the bond among suicide bombers; The Squid and the Whale brings two monstrously large characters to human scale and The President's Last Bang is nastily efficient.
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Gaza Illusions
Disengagement represents a dangerous step backward in the struggle to find a just peace for Israelis and Palestinians and leaves many core issues unresolved.
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After Gaza: Back to Sanity?
Ordinary Israelis have run out of tears for the former settlers of Gaza and an outbreak of political sanity may be at hand.
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Disengagement From Peace?
Israel's withdrawal from Gaza represents a withdrawal from the peace process. If that occurs, its nightmare in Gaza could become a West Bank reality.
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After the Boycott... What?
D.D. Guttenplan : Higher Education
The Israeli university boycott and its subsequent reversal could have been avoided.
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Israeli Boycott: A Mistake
The British Association of University Teachers should overturn its boycott of Israeli academics.
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Marla Ruzicka, Rachel Corrie and 'Credibility'
Alexander Cockburn : Media Analysis
No US Senator attended Rachel Corrie's funeral.
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Letter From Jerusalem
This was always a divided city, even before the wall against peace.
2004
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Why Marwan Did Not Run
Most Palestinians now seek unity and a reprieve from the exhaustion of war.
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Under Siege With Arafat
One symbol of Palestine is now gone, but the Palestinian people continue to suffer under the tyranny of occupation.
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Fighting Israel's Wall
Ann Petter : Occupation & Occupied Territories
"I came to Israel because my tax money pays for Apache helicopters."
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The Jewish Divide on Israel
Esther Kaplan : Judaism & Jews
A growing grassroots movement has challenged the artificial AIPAC consensus.
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Interview With Middle East Scholar Avi Shlaim
Don Atapattu : US Foreign Policy
"The cycle of violence is likely to continue."
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Neocon Man
Daniel Pipes has made his name inveighing against an academy overrun by political extremists. But he is nothing if not extreme himself.
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Pastrami & Champagne
Roane Carey & Adam Shatz : George W. Bush
Sharon may be toasting his agreement with the Bush Administration, but his pastrami sandwich is a recipe for continued warfare.
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The Sharon-Bush Axis of Occupation
Rabbi Michael Lerner : George W. Bush Administration
The policies of these two militarists has little chance of bringing lasting peace.
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Opposing Occupation
Ellen Cantarow : Occupation & Occupied Territories
"I am Jewish. I am Israeli. I am a citizen of this state, and I am very upset."
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Remembering Rachel Corrie
Adam Shapiro : Occupation & Occupied Territories
Why has Corrie's killing gone unchallenged by the United States?
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Letter From Jayyous
David Bloom : Occupation & Occupied Territories
A Palestinian farming village is being strangled by Sharon's wall.
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Pursuing the Millennium
The Zionist-colonial enterprise has always had a built-in propensity to gravitate towards its most extreme expression.
2003
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The One-State Solution
The more the US sinks into a morass in Iraq, the more the Bush Administration leaps to do Sharon's bidding, the more fierce and wide-ranging the debate is likely to grow.
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Why Israel Must Choose Justice
Arthur Miller : Judaism & Jews
Without it, no state can endure as a representative of the Jewish nature.
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Ramallah Diary
Raja Shehadeh : Occupation & Occupied Territories
"This road was as doomed as the Palestinian Authority itself."
2002
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Israel, There and Here
One can be overwhelmed with horror at suicide bombers and still realize that Israeli government policies are a disaster in the making.
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The Mideast War Breaks Out on Campus
Liza Featherstone : Student Movements
One of the biggest problems Palestine's supporters face is anti-Semitism.
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Jews for Justice
Michael Lerner : Judaism & Jews
Some American Jews today feel betrayed by Israeli policies.
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Investigating Jenin
Human rights groups are saying that the evidence they've gathered demands an international hearing.
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Single Standards
It's now a race to see whether Saddam saves Sharon, or Sharon saves Saddam.
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What Israel Has Done
Seeking to destroy the Palestinians as a people, it is destroying their civil life.
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Ending the Death Dance
Richard Falk : War on Terrorism
There'll be no peace until both Palestine and Israel have security and sovereignty.
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Internationals on the Front Lines
Charmaine Seitz : Occupation & Occupied Territories
Activists played a front-line role during the Israeli invasion of the West Bank.
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An Open Letter to General Ariel Sharon
Breyten Breytenbach : Ariel Sharon
A veteran of the fight against apartheid says that might is not right.
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View From Beirut
The Saudi plan wasn't exactly an offer rejected--just an offer ignored.
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A New Current in Palestine
Edward W. Said : Occupation & Occupied Territories
It's too soon to call it a party, but there's now a popular, independent group.
2001
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And Darkness Covered the Land
Robert I. Friedman : Occupation & Occupied Territories
While Ariel Sharon continues to place obstacles in the path of negotiations, the situation on the ground has reached crisis proportions.
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